Posts tagged "france"

One suspect, 18-year-old Mourad Hamyd, has been taken into custody for the attack on the headquarters of satirical comedy magazine Charlie Hebdo which left 12 people dead on Wednesday. Two other suspects, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, have yet to be found by French police.

Lyon, France is often referred to as "Little Paris," but after spending a few days there last month, I would like to propose some other potential nicknames that more accurately capture the character of this city, and its relationship to Paris: "Kinder, gentler, cheaper Paris" "Paris for beginners" "Paris without the suffocating pee smell" And…

When we met at college, little did we know that between the two of us, we would spend the next few years living in five different countries (U.S., France, China, Australia and England) on four different continents . Naturally, when we made our initial moves, our heads were full of images of exotic foreign men and exciting adventures. But, a…

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on face-covering veils, claiming that veiled women make other people uncomfortable. The case was brought by a 24-year-old Muslim woman who chooses to wear a niqab veil. It's hard not to see this as an F.U. to Muslims in France. [Feministing]…

What happened to a wedding at Versailles? A source told People that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are marrying in Italy instead — at a 16th century fortress in Florence called the Forte di Belvedere. People hints that the nuptials could be…

We don't live in a world where men experience the same day-to-day sexist micro-aggressions that women do. But "Oppressed Majority," a short French film by Elénore Pourriat, does a pretty good job illustrating it. Pierre is a father and husband who lives in France. Going about his day, he's catcalled on the street by wome…

Miley's video for "Wrecking Ball" and Britney's video for "Work B**ch" are not to be shown on television in France before 10 p.m., according to the CSA. [Newser] Kinky sex is out, vanilla sex is in. Better get practicing your missionary position. [Em & Lo] Sex is hard. You…

France's parliament is reviewing a proposed bill today to curb sex work by punishing the johns with a $2,000 fine while protecting the sex workers. Prostitution is currently legal in France. [France24, Huffington Post] Civil rights activist Faya Rose Toure was arrested in Selma, Alabama for protesting the construction of…

What a load of chickenshit. Conservative French politician Philippe Le Ray has been fined $1,700 for making chicken noises at a female colleague while she spoke before the National Assembly on Tuesday. Oh, yes, he did this in front of everyone. Green Party MP Veronique Massonneau, an ecologist deputy, was speaking before the government about…

Ours was the shortest courtship that I had ever heard of. Well, except for celebrities, but we all know how those turn out most of the time. Oh, and that girl I knew in college who went on a date with a college professor and was married to him two days later. Fool, was what…

I was already going to post these two hot Olympic swimmers posing in a shower for an anti-homophobia campaign ... and then I found out THEY ARE FRENCH! You know what French men do to me. Or maybe you don't. But trust, they get me all, Ooh la la. Sorry, Amelia, I'm going to need…

The French have finally added a word to the dictionary to describe their most famous expression of l'amour: the French kiss. The Petit Robert 2014 French dictionary added the verb "galocher," which means to kiss with tongues. Previously, the French described French kissing literally, as in "kissing at length in the mouth," the dictionary's publisher…

Merveilleux! Great news out of the land of cheese and wine today -- France has become the 14th country to legalize gay marriage! The decision -- 331-225 was the final tally in the National Assembly -- comes after months of heated debate and public protests. France's justice minister, Christiane Taubira, said the first weddings could be as soon as June.

Beginning yesterday, France will provide access to free birth control for teenaged girls ages 15 to 18 without parental notification, as well as reimburse the cost of abortions to all women over age 18. Pinch me. Am I dreaming? It's not still April Fools' Day, right?

French women are finally legally allowed to wear pants in Paris. Previously they would only allowed to do so while holding horse reins. [Guardian UK] Five adult men accused of the rape and murder of an Indian woman have plead not guilty. The sixth rapist, a teenager, will be tried i…

It's not every morning a girl is lucky enough to wake up next to a Frenchman waiting with a cafe au lait and a warm croissant. But I can dream, can't I? These chic cotton and machine washable bed pillows from Mod Cloth will get me partway there ... and if it doesn't work out…

White bread, rich cheeses, and red wine are beloved staples of the Gallic diet. They smoke, they drink, they consume loads of saturated fats… yet they don't have an obesity problem, they don't lose their looks with age, and they have the lowest rate of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. What gives, France? We're not the only…

Topless nuns were seen hosing down anti-gay marriage demonstrators with "holy sperm" last Sunday in Paris. Go ahead. Read that sentence again. Of course, these weren’t real nuns! FEMEN, the breast-baring Ukrainian women’s movement, is famous for spreading awareness about a cause through nudity. When FEMEN found out that more than 100,000 Catholic…

I am much too obsessed with Paris for my own good, especially considering that I've never been there. I'm enamored of the idea of it, so when I do eventually go (and, by God, I will), there is a decent chance that I will be hideously disappointed. With that in mind, I'm significantly less interested…

Carla Bruni certainly made her mark as one of the more, uh, contentious first ladies ever to hit French office: the longtime singer and model, not to mention the heiress to an industrial dynasty, made ceaseless waves with her swank wardrobe, party-girl past, and dubious intentions when she wed recently divorced French president Nicola…

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…